Round Table Webinar Notes - June 2008

This event will last occurred on June 29, 2008 at 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, and lasted 3.5 hours

All members of the Editors group are encouraged to attend.

So that we all start on the same page, all attendees are encouraged to complete this tutorial.

GotoMeeting will allow us to share any screen of any the attendees. This should prove to be useful for demonstrative purposes. You will be required to place a long distance call for the duration of the meeting.

Attendance is not a commitment to do any work, only a chance to voice your opinion and learn about wikis.

Topics for Discussion

Please list topics for discussion here. This will not serve as an agenda, but a reminder list for attendees.

Editors please feel free to add to this list.

• Templates and ParserFunctions
  • wikimedia's Category:Templates
  • extension infobox (nice example)
  • userbox infobox]
• POV
• every page links to...
  • Privacy policy
  • Disclaimers
  • About BR Wiki
  • Business Rules!
• Discussion pages
• Release Note handling
• Goals page - define our own version of the five pillars[1] or a Mission statement (wikipedia's).
• Tutorial design for new editors. (Getting Started)
• Open up the wiki for editing by
  • anyone who is a BR professional.
• discuss and refine Editors group page.
• discuss protecting pages
• mention highly active Wikipedia users[2]
• Make sure all editors know what Category:Needs Help is.
  • consider hiding it.
• Make sure other editors know about Category:Editors Group
• discuss removing redundancy in long page titles
• discuss the importance of short concise page titles.
  • must be easy to remember
• special:specialpages (deadend pages, long pages, double redirects, etc)
• discuss how-to watch pages
• RSS and Atom feeds of recent changes page provides a news feed of what's happening on the wiki.

• discuss plugins and external programs
  • external editor/diff needs 1.5[3]
  • spell check
  • email to a page
  • TONS of extensions
• Discuss privacy issues of BR_Forum - is it okay to quote advice from the BR_Forum into articles or is there a privacy policy somewhere? How to properly credit those being quoted.
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